Archive for September, 2005
Domain-confusion – We’ve been updating our cph127.com domain which hopefully will result in more correct permalinks – like http://www.cph127.com/whatever.html instead of http://connecta.typepad.com/127/whatever.html
Please be patience – it takes up to 48 hours – hopefully we will succeed 
In the meantime you can join the flight from www.cph127.dk
I found this abstract of an article by Ian Davis at the Mckinsey Quarterly website a strong summary relevant to a number of threads emerging here. The report examines the role of business as responsible contributor to society…
By recasting the long-running argument about the role of business in society, companies can dislodge a debate that’s now wedged between two seemingly incompatible points of view.
* The relationship between big business and society can be viewed as an implicit social contract, with obligations, opportunities, and mutual advantages.
* Large companies must take the lead in explaining their contribution to society. They should define their ultimate purpose in a way that is more subtle than “the business of business is business” and less defensive than most current approaches to corporate social responsibility.
* It is time for big business to recapture the intellectual and moral high ground from its critics and to build social issues into strategy in a way that reflects their actual importance to companies.
For more have a look here
What is your feeling about this hot topic?
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Interesting company who developed a tool for un-locking organizational potential
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Get in. Get on. Get creative.
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The Sacred World Foundation is a state of the art research and design think tank whose projects are exploring innovation created by building bridges between techno and traditional cultures.
Having started out in webdesign myself I was delighted to read this post about design thinking and strategic design at Ideacodes. Seeing this it made me wonder how other design-orientated businesses are feeling about this new wave of design, leadership and innovation?
I must admit I have done nothing in research, but I would assume some businesses are serious about this? If so, who? Please help me out here.
I just read Karls post about "designing for experiences" refering to Marc Retting and Aradhana Goels
presentation on the subject. Find the presentation here or via Karls post.
Among alot of other things the presentation states;
"Experience design, or "design for experience" is a name for enlarging scope to consider patterns of life, goals, activity, context, repeated use, learning, sharing, emotion and more…while applying the design process".
It also includes a small exercise;
- Design a vase
- Design a way for people to enjoy flowers in their home
I think that the exercise and the definition above in a simple way explains what design can do for business - it can enlarge the scope of business and find new solutions to old problems, new value to old needs. Re-phrase the questions and bring new light to the why the company exist and where it can find new ways/markets to create and provide value in/to.
I think one of the most important hurdles in business today, especially if the company has been around for a while, is that companies has been around their own (and their competitors) products for so long they can think outside of that role, that box. Their view on themselves are linked to the product they provide not the problem they solve. They produce and sell "vases" and not "ways for people to enjoy flowers in their home"!
I know, this is hardly new but I certainly got an aha-experience when looking through the presentation. Have a look yourself…it’s also full of tools and methods, explaining the process in a good way.
Wharton has a very interesting article about
knowledge-“management”/sharing where they present the concept of
“Performative Ties".
The Strength of Performative Ties explains the surprising pattern
of support and sharing between professionals. Such performative ties
allow the firm to stream its knowledge between individuals and
locations, even when employees do not know each other and do not expect
reciprocity from the receiver.
I think design-thinking is highly applicable in situations where knowledge should be gathered and shared.
I wonder if you ever thought of withholding knowledge just because you
thought you could have a competitive advantage, maintaining your own
organizational power-base? For how long? Did you succeed? Why? Why not?
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Found this link through the statistics - interesting thoughts, links and thinking
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Via Niti Bhan
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We don’t talk a lot about advertising and marketing at CPH127, but this could be the start. Here’s 26 cliches, I am especially fond of #10
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A sort of inner market for leadership inside companies, could be the future
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When everyone can do professional design, what should professional designers do?
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In a Flat World will Porter’s diamond still apply? Gautam Ghosh asks this very ambitious question.
2 weeks ago Magnus and I was on skype with Ralf – we discussed how we could grow the CPH127-community even stronger. One of the things that came up was pointing to other resources – other destinations.
Year’s back I struggled with implementation of news feed into my own weblog. At the time it slowed down everything. Since then a lot has improved and we just decided to give it a new shot here at CPH127.
Because of that you’ll now see that our “airport” is configured with a newsstand – please see the top-navigation-bar.
CPH127 is not the only ”airport” worth visiting and for that reason we want to market other places around the world. One destination at the time, each and every week from now on.
If you know of interesting places to go - worth recommending - please tell us
The first featured destination is "Putting People First".
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I came across this blog while surfing for writings about innovation principles. I think Mr. Shumann would do a great job as a speaker at Summit2006, or?